The Prison Mines of Ganymede

Introduction

How do you know when you are being steered? I mean steered by the shapers and molders of the bleeding edge contempo-evangelical conscience, which would be, of course, the devil.

The Basic Move

You know that you are being steered when positions that were demanded of you x number of years ago are now positions that you are commanded to relinquish instanter, so that you can stop being a hater.

You are a fundamentalist hater for taking the very same position on same sex mirage that was held just a few years ago by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. They get to evolve over the years because no one ever believed them anyway, but apply a few court cases and blammo, evangelicals are required to do the same thing by means of punctuated equilibria. Evangelicals who go along with this are what theologians of another era like Owen or Turretin would have called “hopeful monsters.”

Not only so, you were a hater just a few years ago for predicting that religious liberty was threatened in the most radical ways by the homo-jihad, and you are a hater now for pointing out that it is all coming to pass, just as predicted. You were hated for being a hater when you were wrong and when you were right on the same issue. Nice work if you can get it.

A few years ago it was “Shut up, that could never happen.” Now it is just plain old shut up.

A Bit of Silver Lining

But now for the good news. We are entering a generation which will exact an actual cost for being the kind of Christian who is unembarrassed by things the Bible says. The fact is the Bible does say that for a man to lie with another man as with a woman is an abomination (Lev. 20:13), that Israel should not suffer a witch to live (Ex. 22:18), that God flooded the entire globe good and wet for their experiments in federally-funded genetic splicing (Gen. 6:4), that Christian slaves were instructed to work doubly hard for their Christian masters (1 Tim. 6:2), and that women in combat roles was beyond appalling (Dt. 22:5). There is a kind of Christian who believes that exegesis of such passages is not done by licking a finger and holding it up in the breeze.

Yeah, my interlocutor might say, but if the Bible taught that the earth was a flat disk rocking precariously on the back of an enormous turtle, would you believe that too? The answer is that 1. It doesn’t teach that, and 2. If it did we would have found the turtle by now, and your argument would be invalid, having failed empirically.

But I have a question for you. If Science (all rise!) taught a few years ago that the habitable earth would be destroyed by 2016 because of rising sea levels caused by your recklessness in asking Holiday Inn to wash the  towels, would you believe that? Thought so. The most highly educated generation in forever is running around investigating why it is getting hotter when it isn’t, and on top of that they exclude from their calculations of possible causes the fact that there is a flaming ball of fire in the sky.

I have a better one. If all the approved scientists in the world tell you that a boy can just decide that he is a girl, and that if he does so you must use the appropriate pronoun while referring to zat — is that the right pronoun? I can’t keep up anymore — and that if you refuse then it is off to the prison mines of Ganymede for you, do you go along with the bogus pronouns? I mentioned the approved scientists. There are in fact unapproved ones, but they are all here in the universal joy camps with me, where we share our pork and beans. When we have been uncooperative with the guards, there are times when we have to share our pork and bean. We use our mealtimes to reflect soberly on whether we will try to be good when we get out this next time.

The intoleristas try to laugh me to scorn because of this persecution complex I have. “Ha! ha! loser!” is how their counterargument goes. But keep in mind the fact that every step in this sexual revolution is one that has lied its head off about what was going to happen at the next stage.

This has happened year after year, and so by this point anybody who believes that it is impossible for laws to be passed outlawing any expression of “hate speech” whatever is somebody who really ought to be the protagonist in Gullible’s Travels. Couple this with the fact that hate speech would necessarily be defined so as to include a sober exegetical handling of Romans 1 from the pulpit, and you have all the ingredients of a totalitolerant hellhole. Progressives love free speech the way parasitoid wasps love caterpillars.

Tertullian had their number. “If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions.” We are up against Babylon, not Athens.

I Got Distracted. This is the Silver Linings Section.

But I said there was good news. It was here a minute ago. Ah, I remember. It is that all those believers who were actually unbelievers, the ones upon whom the world’s cool shame actually works, will have headed down the road to more welcoming places. A welcoming place is defined as one where you can hump whatever you want, blame the resultant disease on whomever you want, and get a government subsidy to make up for your courageous suffering whenever you want.

There are three kinds of professing Christians. The first, already apparent, is made up of those who are prepared to do whatever our new overlords demand. Think of a protesting line of Lesbyterians in colorful robes and stoles celebrating abortion.

The second category is made up of those who are doing a respectable amount of growling, but who are preparing to accommodate themselves to the new demands once the law is finally “settled.”  “Shadrach, you are going to get all of us in trouble! Romans 13, man! Just take a quick knee and nod.”

The third category is made up of those who will not bow, who will not even think about bending. Those in the third group are preparing themselves to disregard every tyrannical edict. We will not do as you say. We will not cooperate. And the number of this group is far larger than anyone could have guessed from how things have been going. Remember Elijah and the 7,000.

Good news? It is this. This third group is going to conquer the world. They have done an amazing amount of good work over the last several centuries. It will be hard to imagine what they will be able to do once liberated from all the deadwood.